Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job description / Role

A new opportunity has come up with an international technology company in the UAE. Our client is looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for the overall delivery activities such as Design, Development, Implementation, Standardization, Automation, and Capacity Planning. You will be expected to have a T-shaped technical profile to be able to switch between multiple disciplines based on the project requirement where your core strength is coming from Linux operating system. The ideal candidate is also expected to automate the requirements of the platform in infrastructure as a code way and take accountability of the end-to-end solution. Your responsibilities would include:

• Drive projects to move the non-compliant products into the standard stack.
• Automate the installation and configuration of standard stack items.
• Perform code review of peers.
• Establish the product backlog that require to be addressed on 2 week sprints.
• Drive backlog projects to completion with infrastructure as code approach.
• Continuous R&D and vendor engagement.
• Automate the installation to achieve Zero touch unattended deployment.
• Review all housekeeping activities and identify key processes that should be automated.
• Introduce Open Source technologies into standard technology stack
• Design solutions that caters for enhancing the operational stability.
• Address Problem tickets, Risk and Audit items in the products backlog

Requirements

To be considered for the role, you need to meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Equivalent
• Red Hat Certified Architect or Equivalent
• At least 10 years of experience at a relevant Technical position in large organizations with hands-on automation knowledge
• Knowledge in Linux internals (Preferable RHEL / Ubuntu)
• Comprehensive understanding in DevOps / SRE, IaC and 12 Factor Principles
• Excellent hands on experience in configuration management, orchestration and IaC tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform)
• Strong understanding of Repository and Artifact management Tools (Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, Nexus)
• Agile methodologies and its ceremonies
• Knowledge about API communications (Rest/Soap), developing a new consumer/publisher for any API
• Excellent Scripting in Groovy (writing Jenkins Files), Bash / Powershell and, Python
• GITOPS driven configuration management and deployment
• Conceptual understanding about infrastructure and how it works.
• Strong understanding of troubleshooting.

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